I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

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

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.

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.

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.