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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANHe belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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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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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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 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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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