We might have been a free and great people together.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.