War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is at its best barbarism.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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War is hell.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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