You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANA battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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 nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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 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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War is at its best barbarism.
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