There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War is hell.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of 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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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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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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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