It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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