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.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

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

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

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

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