The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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 want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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