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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI intend to make Georgia howl.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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War is hell.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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