There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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