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War is hell.
War is at best barbarism.
Hold the fort! I am coming!
War is at its best barbarism.
I intend to make Georgia howl.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy.
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
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.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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.