I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

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.

Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.

Sometimes I feel that I could stand in the middle of the square and scream and thrash about like a wildling, and no one would notice.

If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.