I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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 answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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 is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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