I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.