Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI 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.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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 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.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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