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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANA battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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