I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

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.

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.