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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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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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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.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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