I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

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

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.

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

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.