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

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

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.