Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIn our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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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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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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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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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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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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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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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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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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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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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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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
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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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