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 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 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.
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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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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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