The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans!

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

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.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

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.