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

War is at best barbarism.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

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.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

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