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I like liquor — its taste and its effects — and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

— Stonewall Jackson

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Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.

The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon; and when it does come my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.

The Institute will be heard from today.

Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time.

The Civil War : An Illustrated History (1990)

We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (1891)

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