We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

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.

The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.