If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

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.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.