 An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. |
| The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. |
| There is always room at the top. |
| Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. |
| 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. |
| He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. |
| A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. |
| On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. |
| The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. |
| The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. |
| Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. |
| One country, one constitution, one destiny. |
| There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. |
| Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. |
| Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. |
| When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. |
| The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. |
| I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. |
| Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. |
| God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. |
