Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

When life pushes you down, just roll with the storm, because at one point you'll push life right back.

The match I struck shall not run deadYou’re my first inhale, my last cigarette.

I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

Your Horse is a mirror to your soul.

I don't eat celery. I eat raw milk, cheeses.

You are all a lost generation.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.