There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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