I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

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