It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

War is waged only with vigor, decision, and unshaken will; one must not grope or hesitate.

You know nothing can stop me but loss of breath, and I'm still breathing so it's still on.

Do everything you can to make it around the system, over the system, or out the system.

I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket upon my shoulders and entered the rank, or if I could have justified the measure of posterity, and my own conscience, had retired to the back country, and lived in a wigwam. If I shall be able to rise superior to these, and many other difficulties which might be enumerated, I shall most religiously believe that the finger of Providence is in it, to blind the eyes of our enemies; for surely if we get well through this month, it must be for want of their knowing the disadvantages we labor under.