History teaches us hope.

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.

The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

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 have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.