If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

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.

Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

Elected presidents are for countries.

I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me