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

We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?

The will of the people is the best law.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. . . . I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.