I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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