It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

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

If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.

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

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.

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. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

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.