“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.”

“All we ask is to be let alone.”

“Not mine, oh, Lord, but thine.”

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

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

“Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace”

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”