I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

It's bad. It's damned bad.

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.