If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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