I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

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

Garfield’s assassination attempt made “the whole nation care”.