There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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War is hell.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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