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

“You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”

“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”

“You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.”

“War is cruelty. You can't 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.”