The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

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

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition.

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.