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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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