An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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War is hell.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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