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.

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

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

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.