There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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