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

“Not mine, oh, Lord, but thine.”

“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.”

“The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory.”

“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”