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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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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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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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