I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

I will not move my army without onions.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.