I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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War is hell.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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