War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

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

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.

To the victors belong the spoils.

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