The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

The dead should not rule the living

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.