Say to the seceded States: "Wayward sisters depart in peace."

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Brave rifles, veterans, you have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!

Most of St. Bernard you're going to find is families. It's your fathers, your sisters, the church you went to all your life, schools you went to that your children now go to -- now everyone's scattered.

Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult.

If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us.