As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.

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I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

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There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

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The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

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Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

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Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

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Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

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