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

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We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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

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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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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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The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

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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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We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children. . . during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

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