If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANA battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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 will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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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 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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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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 want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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