I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship.

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

The mission of the playwright ... is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart.