I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person born after that day should ever acquire the rights of citizenship until he could read and write. It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision. Of all those which have been thought of for securing fidelity in the administration of the government, constant reliance to the principles of the constitution, and progressive amendments with the progressive advances of the human mind or changes in human affairs, it is the most effectual.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.