I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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War is hell.
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