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

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

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

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.