If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

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

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

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

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.