I have just read your dispatch about sore tongued and fatiegued [sic] horses. Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of you...r army have done since the battle of Antietem that fatigue anything?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago to...ld me of living for five months on hen mash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, ...considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags, and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer, he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him..., will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I live for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind and true;... For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too; For all human ties that bind me, For the task by God assigned me, For the bright hopes yet to find me, And the good that I can do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rosalynn said, "Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I be...lieve they might consider how they could prevent another war between their countries." That gave me the idea, and a few weeks later, I invited both men to join me for a series of private talks. In September 1978, they both came to Camp David.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paul de Bursac: You don't think much of me, Captain Morgan. You're wondering why they have chosen me for this mission. I wonder to...o. As you know, I am not a brave man. On the contrary, I'm always frightened. I wish I could borrow your nature for awhile, Captain. When you meet danger, you never think of anything except how you will circumvent it. The word failure does not even exist for you. While I, I think always, suppose I fail and that I am frightened. Harry Morgan: Yeah, I can easily see how it wouldn't take much courage to get a notorious patriot off Devils' Island. But uh, but just for professional reasons, I'd like to know how you're going to do it. Paul de Bursac: We will find a way. It might fail, and if it does and I'm, I'm still alive, I will try to pass on my information, my mission, to someone else, perhaps to a better man who does not fail. Because there is always someone else. That is the mistake the Germans always make with people they try to destroy. There will be always someone else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »