With Great Britain, alike distinguished in peace and war, we may look forward to years of peaceful, honorable, and elevated competition.

Such a treasure would doubtless be employed at some time, as it has been in other countries, when opportunity tempted ambition.

With full confidence in the justice of our cause and in the probity, intelligence, and uncompromising independence of the illustrious arbitrator, we can have nothing to apprehend from the result.

From France, our ancient ally, we have a right to expect that justice which becomes the sovereign of a powerful, intelligent, and magnanimous people.

Experience proves that in proportion as agents to execute the will of the people are multiplied there is danger of their wishes being frustrated.

If the United States is not responsible, then there is no legal responsibility in any quarter, and it is a fraud on the country.

The honor of my country shall never be stained by an apology from me for the statement of truth and the performance of duty; nor can I give any explanation of my official acts except such as is due to integrity and justice and consistent…

I hope it is unnecessary for me to say that such a sacrifice will not be made through any agency of mine.

Coming as you do, for the most part, immediately from the people and the States by election, and possessing the fullest opportunity to know their sentiments, the present Congress will be sincerely solicitous to carry into full and fair…

At this time the efforts of the bank to control public opinion, through the distresses of some and the fears of others, are equally apparent, and, if possible, more objectionable.

The new States were promised equal rights and privileges when they came into the Union, and such are the guaranties of the Constitution.

All must admit that there is nothing so worthy of the constant solicitude of this Government as the harmony and union of the people.

It thus favors combinations to squander the treasure of the country upon a multitude of local objects, as fatal to just legislation as to the purity of public men.

Without some general and well-defined principles ascertaining those objects of internal improvement to which the means of the nation may be constitutionally applied, it is obvious that the exercise of the power can never be satisfactory.

Nothing could justify it but the public safety, which is the supreme law.

The probability is that neither opinion approaches the truth, and that both are induced by that influence of interests and prejudices to which I have referred.

And is it supposed that the wandering savage has a stronger attachment to his home than the settled, civilized Christian?

The waves of population and civilization are rolling to the westward, and we now propose to acquire the countries occupied by the red men of the South and West by a fair exchange, and, at the expense of the United States, to send them to a…

To follow to the tomb the last of his race and to tread on the graves of extinct nations excite melancholy reflections.

Our country, by the blessing of God, is not in a situation to invite aggression, and it will be our fault if she ever becomes so.

Both the constitutionality and the expediency of the law creating this bank are well questioned by a large portion of our fellow citizens, and it must be admitted by all that it has failed in the great end of establishing an uniform and…

It is to the body politic what the veins and arteries are to the natural--conveying rapidly and regularly to the remotest parts of the system correct information of the operations of the Government, and bringing back to it the wishes and…

No such inequality should prevail between these brave defenders of their country, and where it does exist it is submitted to Congress whether it ought not to be rectified.

Our conduct toward these people is deeply interesting to our national character.

This policy has, however, been coupled with another wholly incompatible with its success.