Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.

All he ever knew of her was who he saw every day. All I am is who I am every day. All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.

It sucks to try and book a tour without the internet, and I'm not even doing it.

In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

He who has two languages has two souls.