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

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

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

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.