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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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