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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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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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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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 hell.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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