You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANFear is the beginning of wisdom.
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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
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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 better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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 hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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