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.

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.

Disunion by force is treason.

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

We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

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

If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.