Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIt’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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 want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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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 at its best barbarism.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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War is hell.
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