A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they 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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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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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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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