War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
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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.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman 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 ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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