I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

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.

What should I get from books?” Alcide asked in French.That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road. You need to know nothing else, ” my father answered in French.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Friends are what God gives you to make up for your family.

One of the main things for a leader is to eliminate confusion.

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.

Love has more force than a besieging army.

I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.