War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANIf people don’t like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don’t solicit their opinions or votes.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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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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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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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 want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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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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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 voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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