The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

It will be all right if it turns out all right.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition.