Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Their object is disunion.
Disunion by force is treason.
To the victors belong the spoils.
Elevate those guns a little lower.
I have always been afraid of banks.
Desperate courage makes One a majority.
When you get in debt you become a slave.
Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.
People are my religion/Because I believe in them.
Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.
I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.
The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.
The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.
When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.
Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.
Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.
I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.
There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.
Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.
I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!
There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.
I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.
I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.
I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.
Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.