There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANA battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I 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.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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 better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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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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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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