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

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

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

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

War is at best barbarism.