I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIn our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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