War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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War is hell.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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