The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

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.

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

Every student must be a gentleman.

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

I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

It is history that teaches us to hope.