I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

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.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.