...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

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

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

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

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