My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

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

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.