War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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