War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

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.

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.

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

The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?

To laugh is proper to man.

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

Biking is a good alternative. Use the city as your gym.

The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.

The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.

You can never get ahead by trying to get even.