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.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.