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 SHERMANIt’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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War is hell.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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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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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.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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