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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War is hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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