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

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

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.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

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.

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