I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is at its best barbarism.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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War is hell.
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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 nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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