So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal