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

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.