I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

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.

I have patient to wait for what I desire.

Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?

Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes.

I started getting more in tune with who I am by doing roles or even just being in a class and being around people.

I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.