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

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

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

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.