War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANMy 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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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