Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.