if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

We cannot escape history.

While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.