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 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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War is hell.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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 will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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