Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

Too big to cry too young to laugh.

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.