War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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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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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War is hell.
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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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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 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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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