It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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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 better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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