I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANMy 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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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War is hell.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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