“All we ask is to be let alone.”

“I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.”

“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”

“Not mine, oh, Lord, but thine.”

“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.”

“Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. - Now, Voyager”

“...as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer and Virgil, perhaps with only Homer alone.”