Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.