The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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