Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

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

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.

It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.

My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude...You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables them to be.

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.