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 SHERMANI will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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War is hell.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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