If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThis 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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 too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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War is hell.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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