We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

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.

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.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

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