I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

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

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.