Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.