There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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