I was too weak to defend, so I attacked

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

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

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

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.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.