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.

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

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

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

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

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

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