If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Let them impeach and be damned.

I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.