I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANMy 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is hell.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all 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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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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