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 SHERMANCourage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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War is hell.
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