I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.