I intend to make Georgia howl.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThis 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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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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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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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War is hell.
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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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