There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANCourage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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