War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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 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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War is at its best barbarism.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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 will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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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