There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

They fell upon an ungenial climate, where there were nine months of winter and three months of cold weather, and that called out the best energies of the men, …

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.