You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.

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

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

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.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.