I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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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 hell.
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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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 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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN