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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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 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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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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