An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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