Civil war Quote by Abraham Lincoln

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

— Richard Engel

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

— Robert E. Lee

War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.

— Mike Hoffman

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

— Robert E. Lee

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

— Charles Frazier

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

— Jimi Hendrix

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

— George Friedman

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

— Immanuel Kant

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible…

— Kate Bush

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

— William Tecumseh Sherman