Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

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

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.