Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN