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

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.

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