I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.

Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.