...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

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.

Big thoughts roam in big places. If you want to expand your thinking, expand your geography.

Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out.

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.

You transform all those who are touched by You.

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.

Hollywood has always been good to me. I've never blamed Hollywood for my problems.