I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over