An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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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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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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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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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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