"I die hard, but I am not afraid to go."

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities,…"

"My dear Gov. Lee: You have exchanged the rugged field of Mars for the soft and pleasurable bed of Venus."

"When you beat my pitch, young gentlemen, I'll try again."