Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Justice is the greatest interest of man on earth.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.
I still live.
Mind is the great lever of all things.
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.