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 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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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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 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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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