Teach him to deny himself.

The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans!

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

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

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

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.