"Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise"
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"Only the dead will know the end of the war."
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"Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence."
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"Any peace is better than any war"
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"Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale."
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"He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war."
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"We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population."
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"Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully."
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"I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff."
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"His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death."
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"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."
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"Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation."
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"War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible."
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"I can make more generals, but horses cost money."
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"I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays."
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"I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country."
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"During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!"
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"If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up."
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"You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike."
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"I can't spare this man, he fights!"
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