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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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William Tecumseh Sherman
Age: 71 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 8
Died: 1891
Died: February 14
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At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
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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 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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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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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We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it. Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
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But, 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.
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Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
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Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
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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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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
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