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

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

War is at best barbarism.

You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

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 all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

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