You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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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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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 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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War is at its best barbarism.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN






