War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANCourage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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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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War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN