War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANEvery attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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