War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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War is hell.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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