Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIt 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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 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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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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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War is hell.
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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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