There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
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 is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of th...
I have always been afraid of banks.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
One man with courage makes a majority.
To the victors belong the spoils.
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 p...
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.
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 g...
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess...
