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.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

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

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.