An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.