The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANA battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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