Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement

To sit home, read one's favorite newspaper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities