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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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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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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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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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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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