War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANYou cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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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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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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