I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

The mills of God grind slowly.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

Socialism means slavery.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.