I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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War is hell.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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