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.
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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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