It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.