• Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

    Ulysses S. Grant: Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
    Speech in London. "Memorial Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant". Book edited by y Stephen Merrill Allen, p. 95, 1889.