A Quote by Andrew Jackson

I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

Andrew Jackson

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Andrew Jackson
American - President
March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845

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

Andrew Jackson

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Rebecca Harding Davis

This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.

Omar Khayyam

What do you do if youre in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.

Michael Dukakis

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

Rand Paul

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

Abraham Lincoln

Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.

William James

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

Andrew Jackson

On 'B&B,' we shoot so fast and eight episodes a week, so we have to always be on our A-game. There's really no time to make certain adjustments. We usually shoot a scene in one take, maybe two or three only if needed.

Texas Battle

Science only goes so far, then comes God. - Noah Calhoun-

Nicholas Sparks

You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them against each other. Well, if we have to meet like that, I'd rather we never meet again.

Philibert Orry

Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.

Deborah Tannen

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time.

Ray Bradbury

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

Kevin Costner

Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'??s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true.

George Will

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