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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" To the victors belong the spoils. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have always been afraid of banks. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. "