William Tecumseh Sherman
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If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.
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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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.
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.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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