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.
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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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War is hell.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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