I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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War is hell.
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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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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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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 cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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