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Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

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Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.
God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion;.... leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep church and state forever separate.
The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.