If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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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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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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War is hell.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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