It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

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