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

Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.

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

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.

Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No -- we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

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