An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThis 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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 forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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 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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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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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