You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

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

Disunion by force is treason.