It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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 people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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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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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