The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to...

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed… I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

They told me I’d never probably see the front-line area.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I never could be a partisan leader – a man of one idea.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.