I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

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.

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.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

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

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.