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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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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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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.
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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 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN