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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future read more
If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to read more
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
