You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

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

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.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.