War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANYou may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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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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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 better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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