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

If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.

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

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.