"Then Joe is dead."
"The discipline, the ready subordination of each man, whether officer or enlisted man, to duty, the care taken of the men and in return the eager, intelligent, self-respecting zeal of each man in doing..."
"I don't say anything unless I mean it."
"As I said at Richmond, second only to the man who wore the blue, I hold the man who wore the gray."
"All I had to do was to be able to show them that any measure was for the country's good and I knew they would stand for it."
"Now we know but one rivalry—the rivalry to see which of us can do the most for the flag of a united country."
"Now I am emboldened by your generous kindness and confidence to say that it has been indeed a pleasure to deal with Louisiana's representatives in the Senate and the lower House of Congress."
"I thank you not only for the words which accompany it, but for the spirit which lies behind the words."
"When a man is President, when he holds any public office, questions of merely partisan character sink into absolute insignificance compared with the mighty questions upon which all good Americans are ..."
"No President of the United States could have been greeted as I have been greeted today and not go back to take up the duties of his office with a stronger and more earnest purpose to try to represent ..."
"I want, on behalf of this nation, the peace that comes not to the coward, who cringes for it, but the peace of the just man armed, who asks it as a right."
"I can not say how much it means to me to be greeted as I have been greeted by the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray in this trip through the Southland."