The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Everyman is somebody because he is a child of God. And so when we say Thou shalt not kill, we're really saying that human life is too sacred to be taken on the battlefields of the world.

In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.