Quote #31

This war differs from other wars in this particular: We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make young and old, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

More from William Tecumseh Sherman

  1. The scenes on this field would cure anyone of war.
  2. Vox populi, vox humbug!
  3. The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace.
  4. War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
  5. The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capitol reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
  6. War is, at its best, barbarism.
  7. 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. Fear…
  8. If you get blown up I don't care!

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