If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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War is hell.
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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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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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