I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come, I am there.

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.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

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

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.