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.

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

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.

Teach him to deny himself.

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

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.