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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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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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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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