The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

We made a mistake, and you have to be responsible for your mistakes. If they feel the title shouldn’t be here at Burke, then it shouldn’t be here. I’m fine with that. You just have...

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...

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

The best thing for the Bank of Canada to do is to wait and see.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people...

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

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.

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...

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.

Anne’s work reaches a broad audience. She had a one-woman show in the Red Light District of San Francisco at the Shooting Gallery next to a park where they actually do shoot up. You can’t...

I’ve got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

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...

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...

I think this is the best way to end the senior year. The awards just keep coming. After the final game … now it’s a couple months down the road. We’re still receiving awards for...

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

This barbershop being dedicated to a black American soldier also represents something very positive for the community. And I believe in the flag, even if the country doesn’t live up to it.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I...

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view...

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

It was just neat looking around, seeing people up there watching us, seeing all the artwork and realizing all the important people who have been in here. This building just makes us feel small.

Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains...

Elevate those guns a little lower.

It looks like the worst have come back.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

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.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Never take counsel of your fears.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Disunion by force is treason.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit.

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 foe

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

To the victors belong the spoils.

That book [Bible], sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art...

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

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...

Oh, yeah. This is a very nice honor to be able to come here. Just the connection … 150 years of senators … this place has the original feel to it. It’s not your everyday...

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...

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...

I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that . . . the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes...