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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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 attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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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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