You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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 the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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