War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in 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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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 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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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