Henry Clay
Henry ClayAndrew Jackson is ignorant, passionate, hypocritical, corrupt and easily swayed by the basest men who surround him.
Andrew Jackson is a man who built up nothing, constructed nothing, and will leave no enduring monument to his administration except for an enormous fabric of executive power for himself.
Andrew Jackson is a man who goes for destruction, universal destruction; and it seems to be his greatest ambition to efface and obliterate every trace of the wisdom of his predecessors.
Andrew Jackson is unfit for office — who can believe that the killing of two thousand Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the presidency.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
James Madison is wholly unfit for the storms of war, as nature has cast him in too benevolent a mould.
John C. Calhoun is rigid, fanatic, ambitious, selfishly partisan and sectional turncoat with too much genius and too little common sense, who will either die a traitor or a madman.
The Native American is a people whose disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.
Oppression is a process whereby all oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
