William Tecumseh Sherman
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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.
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.
War is hell.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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.
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.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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