I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

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

I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.