We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?

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.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

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.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.