The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.