Let me go, let me go.
The surest test of discipline is its absence.
I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!