You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

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

The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.