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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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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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