The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANYou may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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