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

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

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.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.