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Men Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
- 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…
- I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be…
- After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
- The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never…
- Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
- Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
- In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
- 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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