To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.

I pray that on this day [Christmas] when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace.

Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!