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Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Let us have peace.
I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other one isn't.
"The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times."
