I Was Too Weak To

Why, It Appears That We Appointed All Of Our Worst Generals To Command The Armies And We Appointed All Of Our Best Generals To Edit The Newspapers. I Mean, I Found By Reading A Newspaper That These Editor Generals Saw All Of The Defects Plainly From The Start But Didn't Tell Me Until It Was Too Late. I'm Willing To Yield My Place To These Best Generals And I'll Do My Best For The Cause By Editing A Newspaper.

No Blame Can Be Attached To The Army For Its Failure To Accomplish What Was Projected By Me... I Alone Am To Blame, In Perhaps Expecting Too Much Of Its Prowess And Valor... Could I Have Foreseen That The Attack On The Last Day Would Fail, I Should Certainly Have Tried Some Other Course... But I Do Not Know What Better Course I Could Have Pursued.

It Is Well That War Is So Terrible. We Should Grow Too Fond Of It.

All I Ever Wanted Was A Virginia Farm, No End Of Cream And Fresh Butter And Fried Chicken - Not One Fried Chicken, Or Two, But Unlimited Fried Chicken.

Say What You Mean To Do...and Take It For Granted You Mean To Do Right. Never Do A Wrong Thing To Make A Friend Or Keep One...you Will Wrong Him And Wrong Yourself By Equivocation Of Any Kind.