“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.”

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.

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

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.

You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

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

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.

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

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.

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

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.

If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.

In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

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

War is hell.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.

We all wanted to be like him.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.