I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

There is nothing so powerful as truth – and often nothing so strange.

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government,...

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.January 1830