Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.

All we ask is to be let alone.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.