You may as well say, ‘That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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War is hell.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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