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

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.

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

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.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

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

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.