You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.