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.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.