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 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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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