War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

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

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.