My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

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

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

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

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!