He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

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.

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

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