John Wilkes Booth

“I am here. Whatever happens, I must not be sorry that I killed the President. I am here.”

“Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!”

“I can never repent. It was right.”

“For six months we had worked to capture, but our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.”

“Useless, useless.”

“Tell my mother I died for my country.”

“After being hunted like a dog through swamps, woods, and last night being chased by gunboats till I was forced to return wet, cold, and starving, with every man's hand against me, I am here in despair.”

“For doing what Brutus was honored for.”

“I struck for my country and that alone. A country that groaned beneath this tyranny, and prayed for this end.”

“I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.”

“I must have fame, fame!”

“I am not a murderer. I have done what Brutus was honored for.”

“Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.”