Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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If people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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War is hell.
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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.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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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There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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