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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANAn Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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 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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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