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

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

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.