In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIt’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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 forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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