When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.