From the time I was a small boy, to this very day, I have had great respect for those who stormed ashore in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
To run forward
into artillery, mortar and machinegun....
I'll never know if I would have had the courage.
From
William Tecumseh Sherman from his address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy 19 June 1879.
"I’ve been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It’s entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here.
Suppress it! You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is Hell!"From
John Stuart Mill"Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.""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 a war, is much worse.