War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
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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.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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 – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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