The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come, I am there.

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

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

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