It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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.