All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.

If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.

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

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Every student must be a gentleman.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.