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 SHERMANWar is at its best barbarism.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
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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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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War is hell.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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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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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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