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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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.
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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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