There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.
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Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out.
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My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.
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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
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Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for. My whole trust is in God, and I am ready for whatever He may ordain.
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There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.
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Private and public life are subject to the same rules; and truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy, or tact, or expediency, or any other word that was ever devised to conceal or mystify a deviation from the straight line.
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
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Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
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My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
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It would appear that General Hooker has placed his hindquarters where his headquarters should be. (So said by Lee when he learned that General Hooker, the new Union Commander, had written, in a letter to his soldiers, that My headquarters will be 'in the saddle.'
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The education of a man is never complete until he dies.
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To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
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Strike the tent.
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The devil's name is dullness.
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We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
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Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
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Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
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You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.
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Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.
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It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
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It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
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A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
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