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.

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

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

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

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