We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

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

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

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.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

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

The devil's name is dullness.