War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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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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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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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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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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