... My most respectful greeting to all friends of peace! Only the
brute in man can desire war. So let all the inciters and promoters of
war be treated as brutes and put out of the decent society of
civilized men. And, moreover, let any one who in the press eggs on war
and speaks in favor of wholesale murder be brought before the courts
as a common bravo and assassin.
... The last word in this fearful question of blood, to which the
flower of the country is sacrificed, does not rest with the men at
all, but with the mothers.