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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" To the victors belong the spoils. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Elevate those guns a little lower. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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