The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.