I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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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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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 too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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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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