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I 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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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I 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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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