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.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANThere is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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War is at its best barbarism.
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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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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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