The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

There is always room at the top.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.