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

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" 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 have always been afraid of banks. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Disunion by force is treason. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Elevate those guns a little lower. "