If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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War is hell.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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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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