The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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