The Union, in any event, won't be dissolved. We don't want to dissolve it, and if you attempt it, we won't let you.

If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle - I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than to surrender it.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

A dark old world was devastated by wars between conflicting religions. A dark modern world faces wars between conflicting economic and political fanaticisms in which are intertwined race hatreds.

Battles are the principal milestones in secular history. Modern opinion resents this uninspiring truth, and historians often treat the decisions of the field as incidents in the dramas of politics and diplomacy.

In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.