1. “Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!”
2. “The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.”
3. “We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenant and captains and those are far more important than good generals.”
4. “War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.”
5. “Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.”
6. “War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
7. “The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation’s capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.”
8. “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
9. “Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”
10. “We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.”
11. “Wars are not at all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.”
12. “The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.”
13. “War is at best barbarism.”
14. “War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen and I say let us give them all they want.”
15. “A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.”
