Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

My opinion is that no state can, in any way lawfully, get out of the Union, without the consent of the others; and that it is the duty of the President, and other government functionaries to run the machine as it is.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.