 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. |
| War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. |
| I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. |
| This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. |
| You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. |
| I intend to make Georgia howl. |
| 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. |
| If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you. |
| A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. |
| The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. |
| War is hell. Topics: Short |
| If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. |
| If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. |
| The voice of the people is the voice of humbug. |
| He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. |
| War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. |
| It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. |
| I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy. |
| Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. Topics: Courage |
| There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell. |
