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 SHERMANYou cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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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 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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