War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

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

I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.

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

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.