I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

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

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

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.