If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANA battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is at its best barbarism.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in 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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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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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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