But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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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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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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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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War is hell.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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