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

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

The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will.

Teach him to deny himself.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Many opportunities have been lost and hundreds of valuable lives uselessly sacrificed for want of a strict observance of discipline. Its object is to enable an army to bring promptly into action the largest possible number of its men, in good order and under the control of their officers. Its effects are visible in all military history, which records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than those of numbers and resources.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.