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

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

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

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.