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.
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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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 want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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 intend to make Georgia howl.
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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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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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