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

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.

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.

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

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.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

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