I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and a….

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & sa….

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which ….

You cannot barter manhood for peace..

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others..

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, h….

All this has been my fault..

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back..

I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity..

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action..

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance..

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts..

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey..

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pu….

A land without memories is a people without liberty..

It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'Wha….

With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my ha….

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them ….

Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future..

Teach him to deny himself..

I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender..