Andrew Jackson
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.Collection: Country
The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?Collection: Country
Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.Collection: Innovation
You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.Collection: Practice
Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.Collection: Men
In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.Collection: Country
The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foeCollection: Country
Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.Collection: Father
You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.Collection: Sailing
I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.Collection: Pockets
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.Collection: Heart
I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.Collection: Men
I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act.Collection: Country
The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.Collection: Children
Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.Collection: Country
If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!Collection: Hair
All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.Collection: Money
If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.Collection: Blessed
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.Collection: Nwo
I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.Collection: Receiving
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.Collection: Death
That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.Collection: Native American
Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.Collection: Mistake
People are my religion/Because I believe in them.Collection: Believe
Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign powers, the present may be hailed as the epoch in our history the most favorable for the settlement of those principles in our domestic policy which shall be best calculated to give stability to our Republic and secure the blessings of freedom to our citizens.Collection: Blessing
Desperate courage makes One a majority.Collection: Courage
Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from the infancy of our Republic to the present day, that He will so overrule all my intentions and actions and inspire the hearts of my fellow-citizens that we may be preserved from dangers of all kinds and continue forever a united and happy people.Collection: Prayer
If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.Collection: Government
There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.Collection: Men
Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.Collection: Cutting
There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.Collection: Fashion
Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order.Collection: Character
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.Collection: Rain
If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.Collection: Numbers
We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.Collection: Texas
The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.Collection: Fate
The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.Collection: Spring
In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.Collection: People
In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.Collection: Government
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.Collection: Country
Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.Collection: Mean
Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.Collection: Promise
There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.Collection: Giving Up
This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.Collection: War
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.Collection: Blessing
I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.Collection: Gun
Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.Collection: Talent
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.Collection: Hands