If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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