It Will Be All Right

The Right Of Revolution Is An Inherent One. When People Are Oppressed By Their Government, It Is A Natural Right They Enjoy To Relieve Themselves Of Oppression, If They Are Strong Enough, Whether By Withdrawal From It, Or By Overthrowing It And Substituting A Government More Acceptable.

If Men Make War In Slavish Observance Of Rules, They Will Fail. No Rules Will Apply To Conditions Of War As Different As Those Which Exist In Europe And America...war Is Progressive, Because All The Instruments And Elements Of War Are Progressive.

We're Teachers, And We Have A Commitment." "commitment To What-to Live And Die In This Hellhole, When We Can Leave And Live Like Other People?

In 1856...i Preferred The Success Of A Candidate Whose Election Would Prevent Or Postpone Secession, To Seeing The Country Plunged Into A War The End Of Which No Man Could Foretell. With A Democrat Elected By The Unanimous Vote Of The Slave States, There Could Be No Pretext For Secession For Four Years.... I Therefore Voted For James Buchanan As President.

There Are Many Men Who Would Have Done Better Than I Did Under The Circumstances In Which I Found Myself. If I Had Never Held Command, If I Had Fallen, There Were 10,000 Behind Who Would Have Followed The Contest To The End And Never Surrendered The Union.