War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANMy 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 too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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War is hell.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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