The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

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.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

When I am longing for love, every rose is the expression of my soul.

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved