There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is hell.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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