After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

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.

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

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