There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

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.

And the love in their eyes set the world on fire.

You haven't lived until you died in New York.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

The fan support isn't the biggest but they're very loyal and very supportive. It's a very good group of fans and I enjoy playing in front of them.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.