 It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. |
| To the victors belong the spoils. |
| 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 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. |
| Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. |
| I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life. |
| I have always been afraid of banks. |
| 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. |
| Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. |
| 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. |
