It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America..

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

The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to a….

Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none de….

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sac….

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule..

I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad….

The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fight….

The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery,….

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever..

Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, autho….

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove….

If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to ….

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands..

My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in natu….

Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, route….

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena..

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again..

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destruc….

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation..

All we ask is to be let alone..