If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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