I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANGrant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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 voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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