War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

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

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

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjust.

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.