Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANI beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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