We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

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.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

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.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

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.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.