"The neighboring tribes are becoming daily less warlike, and more helpless and dependent on us … [T]hey have, in a gre…"

"If it be conceded, as it must by every one who is the least conversant with our institutions, that the sovereign powe…"

"I consider the tariff act as the occasion, rather than the real cause of the present unhappy state of things. The tru…"

"The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the stronges…"

"The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the …"

"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerfu…"

"I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and o…"

"Many in the South once believed that slavery was a moral and political evil. That folly and delusion are gone. We see…"

"I cannot think in the present state of parties of entering again on the political arena. I would but waste my strengt…"

"Protection and patriotism are reciprocal."