I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

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.

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.