What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

I only wanted to help my people.

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

I'm sometimes scared that I'm forgetting what my dad was like.

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.