It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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