I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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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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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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 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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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War is hell.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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