War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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.

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

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

War is hell.

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.