If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

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.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

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.

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.