Nothing Fills Me With Deeper Sadness Than

Tradition Usually Rests Upon Something Which Men Did Know; History Is Often The Manufacture Of The Mere Liar.

How Idle Is This Prating About Natural Rights As Though Still Containing All That Had Been Forfeited.

Be Not Haughty With The Humble; Be Not Humble With The Haughty.

Let Men Not Ask What The Law Requires, But Give Whatever Freedom Demands.

For An Enemy So Relentless In The War For Our Subjugation, We Could Not Be Expected To Mourn; Yet, In View Of Its Political Consequences, It Could Not Be Regarded Otherwise Than As A Great Misfortune For The South.