In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThe better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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