My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

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.

The greatest wealth is a loving peaceful mind.

Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side

Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.

I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.

Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.