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 SHERMANMy 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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