Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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