"Here we care nothing for the boy's birthplace, nor his creed, nor his social standing."
"This institution has completed its first hundred years of life."
"It will be more difficult in the future than ever before to know your profession, and more essential also;"
"Your duty here at West Point has been to fit men to do well in war."
"Peace and freedom—are there two better objects for which a soldier can fight?"
"It is a good custom for our country to have certain solemn holidays in commemoration of our greatest men and of the greatest crises in our history."
"On July 4 we celebrate the birth of the nation; on this day, the 30th of May, we call to mind the deaths of those who died that the nation might live."
"Washington and Lincoln—the man who did most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve it—stand head and shoulders above all our other public men."
"All cruelty is forbidden, and all harshness beyond what is called for by need."
"All honor to them; and shame, thrice shame, to us if we fail to uphold their hands!"
"Washington and Lincoln—the man who did most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve it—stand head and shoulders above all our other public men, and have by common consent won the righ..."