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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have always been afraid of banks. "

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

" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. "

" 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. "

" 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. "