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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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 nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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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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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 at its best barbarism.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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