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.
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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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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 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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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
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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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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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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 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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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