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

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home

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

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.