War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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 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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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