It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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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.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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War is at its best barbarism.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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