I am without religious feeling.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.