"My aim, then, was to whip the rebels,……" — William Tecumseh Sherman
"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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William Tecumseh Sherman
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71 Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman
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War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.
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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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War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
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I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would…
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You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those…
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I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success…
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An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon,…
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I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war…
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
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