I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

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.

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

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

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

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.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

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

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Make your life a story worth telling.

I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

Boxing is show-business with blood.

The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though.

I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right.

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice.