It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Gentleness, good treatment, honor the victor and dishonor the vanquished, who should remain aloof and owe nothing to pity - In war, audacity is the finest calculation of genius.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.