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

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

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

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

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.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

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.