War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

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 takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

A moment spent in Sorrow or a moment spent in Pain is a waste of a Great Treasure that you will never get again.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.

If performance of duty is part of excellence, then it should give satisfaction and happiness.

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

Many things can make you rich, but only a few things can enrich you.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.