I wouldn’t care to shoot my own townsmen over a difference of opinion about politics. Keep ‘em yourself if you think you need ‘em; but I suggest you’ll be better off to put ’em away where you can’t get at ’em. The trouble with a pistol is that if you show it, you’ve got to use it, and once you use it you’ve committed yourself.

That’s all war is – a consuming fever: a period of delirium and insanity, of misery, disappointment, discomfort, anxiety, despair, waste, weariness, boredom, brutality, death; and yet to every man in every war there comes a day worth living for: a day when a lifetime of excitement is packed into a few short hours.

Approaching us through a haze of dust that overhung the road was a long column of men – a slovenly column that marched irregularly and out of step, so that it had the look of a gigantic centipede whose feet hurt.

They call war an art, but it isn’t. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one’s own ends – and that’s not art: that’s business.

They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.

People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery to be imposed on them without resorting to a defensive war are inevitably doomed to years of death and suffering-and far more of each than any war would bring to them....The army doesn't exist that can annihilate men in their own land-not if they love it sufficiently.

Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him.

If prices stayed up, we'd have to rebudget. It's come down ome, so I hope we can make it the rest of the year.

We clear so many rights and permissions that something's going to get missed. We've been singled out as a whipping boy.

My wife was very much into community service, especially with our kids involved in sports. She was very interested in volunteerism, always had a big smile and was a tireless gardener. This is a wonderful remembrance, really.