England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

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.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

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