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 SHERMANWar is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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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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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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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War is hell.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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