 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...7 he ordered its total evacuation by the citizenry. Hood protested vehemently, but Sherman replied, "You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. ... You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. They... | |
 | James W. Child - 1986 - 212 pages
...Sherman, the Union general, who said: War is simply power unrestrained by compact or constitution.... You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty and you cannot refine it." Well, what of those claims? Are they correct? Can one say anything about the morality of war? Well,... | |
 | Howard M. Hensel - United States - 1989 - 344 pages
...officer who began the war by refusing to allow his troops to do any foraging, now bluntly stated that, " 'you cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty and you cannot refine it .... You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.'... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - History - 1990 - 1086 pages
...renew my offer of services to make their exodus in any direction as easy and comfortable as possible. You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...waiting till the plunging shot of contending armies will renew the scenes of the past month? . . . You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty and you cannot refine it. ... I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any... | |
 | Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - History - 1994 - 278 pages
...extension it would visit all southerners. They had to cry out in defeat before the war could cease. "You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty and you cannot refine it," thundered Sherman the Jeremiah, in King James cadences every bit as powerful as Lincoln's, "and those... | |
 | Gregory Crane - Political Science - 2023 - 384 pages
...by which he attempted to reconcile his humane longings with the ferocity of his military practice: You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the 15. Sherman 1984, 2: 12.5-12.6. 16. Sherman... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...war, and not popularity-seeking. If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war."41 "You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...as they applied to Atlanta in particular, Sherman accepted them in general. Sherman wrote to Hood: You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and malediction a people can pour... | |
 | Bruno Coppieters, N. Fotion - History - 2002 - 348 pages
...started but seemed to be one after it did. Here is Sherman's classic statement of his version of Realism: You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour... | |
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I wilL War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it: and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. 
