Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.