It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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 better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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