Woodrow Wilson actually said...

I can never speak in praise of war, ladies and gentlemen; you would not desire me to do so.

And just so soon as the tasks of peace are performed in the same spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion, peace societies will not be necessar...

We owe them the spiritual reëstablishment of the Union as well; for they not only reunited States, they reunited the spirits of men.

There is no immortality that is safer than theirs.