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

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

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.

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.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

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 cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.