"I have always given it as my opinion that no terms should be made with a people who are so lost to every sense of honor and principle as to be capable of such barbarity."

"I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world."

"There is nothing more likely to produce an alteration in the conduct of the Indians than a conviction in their minds that we are able and determined to punish them for their depredations."

"Speak not evil of the absent, for it is a sure way to lose the confidence of all present."

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."