Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

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.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.