Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

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

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

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.