“Care for him who shall have borne the battle”
“I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”
“Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.”
“Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.”
“A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.”
“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.”
“Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.”
“Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.”
“What e'er thou art, act well thy part.”
“Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.”
“I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.”
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
“Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.”
