War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

War is at best barbarism.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

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.

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

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.