"The path to peace is not an easy one. It is fraught with peril and uncertainty."

"I have seen too much of war to ever want to see it again."

"The United States never lost a soldier or a foot of ground in my administration. We kept the peace. People asked how it happened—by God, it didn't just happen, I'll tell you that."

"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs."

"I refuse to believe that the world is so divided that we cannot find common ground."