If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come, I am there.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.