Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.

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.

The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.