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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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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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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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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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’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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War is hell.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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