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.
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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War is hell.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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