The only good Indian is a dead Indian

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

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.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

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

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