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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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 the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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