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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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