I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

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.

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

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