I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

If you are going through hell just keep going

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.