There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people.

What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!

Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.