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.

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.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.