You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

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

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

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

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

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

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.