Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.