I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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 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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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War is 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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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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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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