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

Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or on the land. Because the physical and chemical properties of water are well suited to the requirements of life, it is no accident that life is a water-based phenomenon.

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

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.