Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.