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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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