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"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."
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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."
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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."
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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."
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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."
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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."
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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"
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"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
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"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."
War
"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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"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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"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
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"War is at its best barbarism."
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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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"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
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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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"I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want."
Humility
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