Nations, Like Individuals, Are Punished

There Is Nothing More I Should Do To It Now, And Therefore I Am Not Likely To Be More Ready To Go Than At This Moment.

Retreat? No. I Propose To Attach At Daylight And Whip Them.

In 1856...i Preferred The Success Of A Candidate Whose Election Would Prevent Or Postpone Secession, To Seeing The Country Plunged Into A War The End Of Which No Man Could Foretell. With A Democrat Elected By The Unanimous Vote Of The Slave States, There Could Be No Pretext For Secession For Four Years.... I Therefore Voted For James Buchanan As President.

My Family Is American, And Has Been For Generations, In All Its Branches, Direct And Collateral

One Of My Superstitions Had Always Been When I Started To Go Anywhere Or Do Anything, Not To Turn Back, Or Stop Until The Thing Intended Was Accomplished. I Have Frequently Started To Go Places Where I Had Never Been And To Which I Did Not Know The Way, Depending Upon Making Inquiries On The Road, And If I Got Past The Place Without Knowing It, Instead Of Turning Back, I Would Go Until A Road Was Found Turning In The Right Direction, Take That, And Come In By The Other Side.