I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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War is hell.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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