If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.