Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.
In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.
[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No -- we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.
The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.
I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.
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.
The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.
Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.
To the victors belong the spoils.
I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.
Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.
All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.
I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exactly what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made, some honest progress within every succeeding twenty-four hours.
The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.
Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.
If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!
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