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.
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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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 forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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War is hell.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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