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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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

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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 voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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