Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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