“Not mine, oh, Lord, but thine.”

“All we ask is to be let alone.”

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

“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.”

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

“The mind is free and uncorhursable.”