I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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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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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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War is hell.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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