There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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