The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.

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

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.