I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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