Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

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.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

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