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

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.

To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjust.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

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

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

I intend to make Georgia howl.