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

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.

I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

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.

A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.

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