Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
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.