There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war — except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)

(Spurious)

Sometimes actually attributed to Lincoln, it is actually a line written for a simulation of Lincoln by Arthur Heinemann for the TV episode Star Trek, 3x22 "Savage Curtain" (1969).