"I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them."
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"Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over"
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"It's bad. It's damned bad."
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"confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head."
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"I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses."
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"I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game."
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"Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed."
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"Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter."
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"I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it."
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"If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this."
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"We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it."
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"I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war."
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"We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed."
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"He has got the slows, Mr. Blair."
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"The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die."
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"You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union."
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"Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time."
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"Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy."
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"It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness."
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"[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property."
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