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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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 think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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Boy Fact From Like Make Myself Opinion People Reasoning Suit
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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Begining Fear Wisdom
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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War is hell.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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