Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

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

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

I have enough of everything.

The sinner is saved to be a saint by the Saviour.

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

In the sun I feel as one.

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

Shut up. What did you ask me, anyway?” – Sundown “Really? Good thing I didn’t tell you to duck a bomb.” – Sasha