If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

War is at its best barbarism.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

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

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.

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

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

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 don't solicit their opinions or votes.

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.

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 wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

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.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.