I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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 the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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War is hell.
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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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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 is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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