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 SHERMANAn Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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 people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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War is hell.
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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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