I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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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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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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