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

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

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

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

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come, I am there.

We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.