[Gen. William S.] "Rosecrans [at Chicamauga] has been badly beaten!"... How these blows strike my heart!... I suffer from these bl...ows more than I did from the loss of my sweet little boy. But I suffer less now than I did from Bull Run, or even Fredericksburg.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another serious reverse. [Gen. Ambrose] Burnside's repulse at Fredericksburg.... Now remains our last card, the emancipation of th...e slaves. That may do it.... Our partisanship about generals is now rebuked. General [George B.] McClellan has serious faults or defects, but his friends can truly claim that if he had retained command, this disaster would not have occurred. The people and press would perhaps do well to cultivate patience. It is a virtue so needed in a struggle so equal as this. If the people can hold out, we shall find the right man after [a] while.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no s...ufficient time to keep it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched.--Let us be careful who become army leaders i...n the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery--in fact, its only enemy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldie...r in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder.... The Army functions best when you're frightened... of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and ...God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You're a fool if you don't realize this is going to be the reactionary's century, perhaps their thousand-year reign. It's the one ...thing Hitler said which wasn't completely hysterical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »