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" I have always been afraid of banks. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Elevate those guns a little lower. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "