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I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected. ”
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. ”
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights. ”
Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present. ”
The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. ”
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah. ”
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. ”
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped. ”
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. ”
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. ”