When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?