If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking..

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as ….

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..

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..

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster..

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it..

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish..

The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will.….

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the be….

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side..

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they ….

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

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounde….

I intend to make Georgia howl..

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other..

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with o….

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers ca….

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

To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, d….

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy..

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