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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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