You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

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.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.

When I go to the plate, I think about putting the ball in play. It's important to get on base and get some walks, but I don't go to the plate thinking of walking.

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.