I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

There are so many people I wish I could have met:

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.