You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

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.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

War is at its best barbarism.

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

War is hell.

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