There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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