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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty,

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. – J. B. Priestley

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It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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I can tell you this: If Im ever in a position to call the shots, Im not going to rush to send somebody elses kids into a war. – George H. W. Bush

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