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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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