It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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