Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

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

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.