On the coming of that tremendous storm which for eight years desolated our country, Mr. Jefferson hesitated not, halted not. John Tyler Read Quote
Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption. John Tyler Read Quote
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings – Thomas Jefferson no longer lives! John Tyler Read Quote
The sailor’s life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war. John Tyler Read Quote
Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade. John Tyler Read Quote
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. John Tyler Read Quote
It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised. John Tyler Read Quote
Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. John Tyler Read Quote
I am charged with violating pledges which I never gave; and because I execute what I believe to be the law, with usurping powers not conferred by law; and above all, with using the powers conferred upon the President by the Constitution, from corrupt motives and for unwarrantable ends. John Tyler Read Quote
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration. John Tyler Read Quote
