Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

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.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

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

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

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