If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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