The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

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.

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

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

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.

An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.