William Tecumseh Sherman
Soldier
1820-02-08
Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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