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

At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.

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.

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.

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

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

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.