If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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 too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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 you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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