War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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

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.

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

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.