A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.

I will not move my army without onions.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

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.

A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.