I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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