I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.