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 more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

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

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

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.

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