Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.