If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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 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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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 will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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War is hell.
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