We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

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

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

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

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.