Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

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

All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.