There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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War is hell.
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