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"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue."
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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."

"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."

"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."

"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."

"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."
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"The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong."

"At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country."

"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil."

"Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session."

"The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination."

"If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy."

"From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves."

"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty."

"By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry."
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