You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is at its best barbarism.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War is hell.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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 want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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