This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

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

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

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

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

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Their object is disunion.