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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIt 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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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 at its best barbarism.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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