Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy; but I feel it within me that it is to be so.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.