In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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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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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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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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