Quotes

Why he practiced law after losing his leg:

"I could not work, to beg I was ashamed, and I could not steal, because they would all know it was Huntsman by his track; and I was thus compelled to be a lawyer."

Upon seeing an old friend many years later:

"I think I used to know an old sinner about your size."

Written on the margin of a bill he authored while Tennessee state senator, 1829:

"Let every d--n committee keep its fingers off this bill."