The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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