On his deathbed, when asked if he had left anything undone:
I didn't shoot Henry Clay, and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
As reported in: The Horn Book Magazine, Volume 52 (1976), p. 172
I didn't shoot Henry Clay, and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
As reported in: The Horn Book Magazine, Volume 52 (1976), p. 172