Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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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 think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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