An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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 is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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War is hell.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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