All Quotes

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. ”

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. ”

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

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

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped. ”

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. ”

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

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

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. ”

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace. ”