Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.

We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take.

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

I done told you twice already goddammit no!

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

The machine was so intricate, so complicated, that he almost got dizzy looking at it. Even in its sad state of disrepair, it was beautiful.

What we think about, what we concentrate on, will always, always, be reflected on the outside.

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy."