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.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

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 will attack no matter what and win the war!