If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.
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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. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.
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Vox populi, vox humbug.
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I wonder how unique people realize that it is. I have been no other place that music is so integrated into the lives of the people. Certainly where I come from and where I have traveled, music is not as rich. Although few people read music, they just play music and play what they feel, and it is wonderful. It was just one of the most fun projects I have ever made. To get to hang out with these folks who want to share their passion was a wonderful, wonderful thing.
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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.
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Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.
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General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
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War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
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If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.
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War is hell, and I mean to make it so.
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The devil has four chief servants: 'There's no danger,' 'Only this once,' 'Everybody does it,' and 'By and by.'
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Not every website has that kind of success. We just have a highly targeted audience,
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War is hell.
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Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!
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