We must forgive our enemies.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

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.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.