No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

The will of the people is the best law.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon.

I don't want to die an old lady.

I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

They be crazier than we are.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

I'm human; that's what people don't realize.