You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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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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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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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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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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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 cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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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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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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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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If you don’t have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we’ll eat your mules up, sir.
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