Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.

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

I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.

Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.

I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.