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

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" 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. "

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

" Elevate those guns a little lower. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have always been afraid of banks. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" To the victors belong the spoils. "

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

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

" Disunion by force is treason. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "