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 SHERMANI 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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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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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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 you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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