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" All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. "

" Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission. "

" Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. "

" As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. "

" Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. "

" Disunion by force is treason. "

" Elevate those guns a little lower. "

" Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. "

" Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. "

" Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. "

" Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. "

" I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life. "

" I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. "

" I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life. "

" If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. "

" I have always been afraid of banks. "

" In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges. "

" It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. "

" It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. "

" It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. "

" I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. "

" I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. "

" I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President. "

" Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. "

" Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. "

" Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me. "

" No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. "

" Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. "

" Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. "

" Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. "

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