If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

The dead should not rule the living

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.