American - Soldier | February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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War is hell.
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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