I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

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.

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

You think the two of us and a slummy motel make for a dangerous combination?

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

The unlived life is not worth examining.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

Man, I didn't think I stood a chance. I mean, she was way out of my league.she still is.

When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.