I intend to make Georgia howl.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANCourage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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