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.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.