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

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished. I have frequently started to go places where I had never been and to which I did not know the way, depending upon making inquiries on the road, and if I got past the place without knowing it, instead of turning back, I would go until a road was found turning in the right direction, take that, and come in by the other side.