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 SHERMANI 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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War is hell.
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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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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