War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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