Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

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

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. 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, but if it has to come, I am there.