It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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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.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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 know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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