An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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