You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIn our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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