War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANBut, 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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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 nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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War is hell.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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