I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

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.