The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

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.

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

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

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

War is at its best barbarism.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

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

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

War is hell.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

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.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

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.

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

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.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will. War suits them.. They are splendid riders, first rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.