If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

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.

You can be a person with a strong passion or holy anger and be furious in a way that will make the society safer, godly, with social justice and equity.

Faith precedes all great accomplishments.

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way.

Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.

If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.