I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

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.

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.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

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

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.