“Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.”

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”

“To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.”

“Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung”

“I have seen your dispatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke...”

“I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.”

“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”