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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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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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 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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: February 8th, 1820

Died: February 14th, 1891

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