We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

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.

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.

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

If we require some kind of sign, or "proof, " for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tust, not in God but in the sign or proof.

The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

'Time to live dangerously. We're having pancakes.'

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads.

Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.

I've repeated it 100 times and I'm going to look you in the eye, tonight, Mr. Couillard: there will be no referendum as long as Quebecers aren't ready.

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.