Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

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

Many opportunities have been lost and hundreds of valuable lives uselessly sacrificed for want of a strict observance of discipline. Its object is to enable an army to bring promptly into action the largest possible number of its men, in good order and under the control of their officers. Its effects are visible in all military history, which records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than those of numbers and resources.

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.