He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANCourage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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War is hell.
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant.
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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 make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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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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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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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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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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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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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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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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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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