The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.