There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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 hell.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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This 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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