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.

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.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.