Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

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.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.