The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.
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.
Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances
He has lost his left arm, but I my right.
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.