I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is at its best barbarism.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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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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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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