I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

I am in cage. I wish to be free.

There can be no greater motivator for evil than a huge sense of injustice!

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage