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.

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

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

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

Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

I intend to make Georgia howl.