If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIt 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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN