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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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