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

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

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

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.