"Still on the whole the campaign is the best, cleanest and most satisfactory of the war. I have received the most fuls…"

"I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected."

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

"All the congresses on earth can’t make the negro anything else than what he is; he must be subject to the white man… …"

"No rebels shall be allowed to remain at Davis Mill so much as an hour. Allow them to go, but do not let them stay. An…"

"Vox populi, vox humbug."

"I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy."

"I am satisfied, and have been all the time, that the problem of this war consists in the awful fact that the present …"

"I regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash — and it may be we…"

"I hereby state, and mean all I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nomin…"