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

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's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

...if it weren't for you, mornings wouldn't be so comforting - slippers wouldn't scrape through the rooms of my heart...

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

Keep your vampire mitts off me. I'm not your friggin' blood toy.

The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.