I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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