Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful

O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old read more

O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone,
But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the read more

Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone,
But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. read more

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.