I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.