War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is at its best barbarism.
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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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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 too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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 voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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