Extra interest signifies extra risk.
There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.
I have seen their backs before.