Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in th...e end find that ... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust in due time to ... lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have late...ly got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man's feeling and character are injured, he ought to seek a speedy redress.... My character you have injured, and further y...ou have insulted me in the presence of a court and large audience. I therefore call upon you as a gentleman to give me satisfaction for the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all t...he members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and se...ttled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official st...ation than another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Government's] true strength consists in leaving individuals and states as much as possible to themselves--in making itself felt, ...not in its power, but in its beneficence, not in its control, but in its protection, not in binding the states more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »