The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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 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.
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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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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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