If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

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

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. 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.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

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.