A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

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.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.