There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

...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.