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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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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War is hell.
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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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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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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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