There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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War is hell.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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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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