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

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

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

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

I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.