If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANAn Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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