Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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.
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 is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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