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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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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War is hell.
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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 the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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