War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 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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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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