Benton was the only Jacksonian senator who could contend with the great nullifier and the two great Whigs; and he replied at length, and in much the same style as they had spoken.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
He always spoke of Calhoun with extreme aversion, and there were probably moments when he was inclined heartily to sympathize with Jackson's death-bed regret that he had not hung the South Carolina nullifier.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
I knew that I was the son of a nullifier, and the nephew of a Union man.
"The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915"
Basil L. Gildersleeve