I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.