Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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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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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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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