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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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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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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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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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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 the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN