War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANAn Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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 want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War is hell.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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