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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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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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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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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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