No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.'