The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANYou cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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 at its best barbarism.
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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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