The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

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

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.