Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.