If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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