I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

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.

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.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.

This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.

Nothing stays together without a fight.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.