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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANA battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I 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.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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 forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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War is 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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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