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We made too many wrong mistakes.

We started out as far to the left as we could.

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.