If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.William Tecumseh Sherman
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.
William Tecumseh Sherman
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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