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

Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

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.

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

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