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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI intend to make Georgia howl.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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