If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is at its best barbarism.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is at its best barbarism.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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