John S. Mosby (1833–1916) Confederate Army officer
War Loses Its Romance (1887), as quoted at the Veterans Memorial at the Lackawanna County Courthouse in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.”
Speech in Ottawa (10 January 1946), published in Eisenhower Speaks : Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels
1940s
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