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

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.

You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

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.

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.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.