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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. "

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" 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. "

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

" I have always been afraid of banks. "

" Disunion by force is treason. "

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" 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. "

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

" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "

" 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. "

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

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

" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "

" The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble. "

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

" 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. "

" The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. "

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

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

" We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. "

" There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. "

" There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. "

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

" The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. "

" Elevate those guns a little lower. "

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

" 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. "

" There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone. "

" 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. "

" The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. "