If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. Read Summary
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. Read Summary
I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah. Read Summary
I intend to make Georgia howl. Read Summary
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. Read Summary