Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

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

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.