The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANHe belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is 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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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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 think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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