Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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 want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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