War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is at its best barbarism.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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War is hell.
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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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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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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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