"Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”

“If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.”

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”

“War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.”

“I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.”

“The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.”

“When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.”

“When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.”

“Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.”