You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANGrant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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