If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.

If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'.

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.