I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

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.

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

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.