Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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 hell.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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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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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 SHERMAN