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

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

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.

I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.