If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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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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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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