War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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