He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

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

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

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