The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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