"I consider the War as over, and I am preparing to return to that domestic walk of life, in which I have been so long happy."

"The very idea of a government of the people, by the people, for the people, is founded on the great principle of majority rule."

"I have always given it as my opinion that no terms should be made with a people who are so lost to every sense of honor and principle as to be capable of such barbarity."

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

"Ah, Lee, you are a funny fellow, see, that bird is laughing at you."