I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
Source: From Rand Lindsly's HUGE Quotations File, an collection of quotations from the Internet.
-- Artemus Ward, (Apr 26 1834-1867), US humorist; One of the most popular 19th-century American humorists, whose lecture techniques exercised much influence on such humorists as Mark Twain.