There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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War is hell.
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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