The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian