Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

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

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.