War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

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

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

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

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.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.