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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "