It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANBut, 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is at its best barbarism.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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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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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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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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