Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is at its best barbarism.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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 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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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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 will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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