Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in 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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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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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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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