Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.