There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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 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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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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