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.

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

Stand by your principles; stand by your guns; and victory complete and permanent is sure at the last.

Winning without problem is just victory, but winning with lots of trouble create history.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.