How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.