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" 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 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. "

" Disunion by force is treason. "

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

" The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once. "

" I have always been afraid of banks. "

" 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. "

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

" Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. "

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

" You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "