You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

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

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.

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.

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.